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HINTERLAND
Definition of HINTERLAND
noun
The land immediately next to, and inland from, a coast.
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Where it comes from
Borrowed from German Hinterland, from hinter (“behind”) + Land (“land”), cognate to English hinder (“back, rear”) + land. First used in English in 1888 by George Chisholm in his work Handbook of Commercial Geography originally as hinderland, but the current spelling (following German) became more popular. The term is characteristic of a thalassocratic analysis of space (from the point of view of a nation with maritime supremacy, such as 19th-century Britain).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- German
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
8th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.1%
of traced words share this origin (826)
branch · 22.8% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, HINTERLAND · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HINTERLAND in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 132, 29 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 132, 29 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HINTERLAND starts with H and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ADEHILNNRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N appears more than once.
Words that start HINTER
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found HINTERLAND?
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